I adore the September gallery. It really is amazing how different each of the creative teams projects turned out this month, all with the exact same product to play with, depending on the add-ons that they receive. This circle layout by our guest designer Donna Downey is so simple and perfect, especially with those dictionary page flowers. love!

Amy’s layout is just perfect. I was really hoping to see someone use the pie cahrt fabric that i designed for this kit used and when i saw her house layout i lost it…. love city! love the texture and how she incorporated the jillibean ribbon & all of those chipboard pieces into the design.

Celeste’s layout is so my life, although i’m not so good at the folding of the laundry as much as i am the creating and washing of it. i love when scrappers document the everyday things we usually forget.

Debee absolutely floored me this month. floored me. She is such a true artist and this layout with all of the color and texture and stitching really should be framed and hung on her wall. frame it d. frame it!!

Dina. the queen of stitching. I don’t think there has ever been a layout she has created that hasn’t made me want to drop and scrap as soon as i saw it, but i adore how she incorporated the vintage primer flashcard right into her layout title.

Jessi really did the Clean Slate add-on justice with her careful clustering and i love the emphasis she put on the primer flashcard and how she mirrored the message with the little flower outlining the small word on the flashcard.

This layout just made giggle. katie is the queen of layering and the way she documented this picture was perfect. and the monsters… who couldn’t love those monsters? lol

This is such a lisa creation, and completely explains why i like to refer to her as the lovely miss rainbow-pants. the rendering of the landscape photo into a rinabow masterpiece is so cool!

and before i forget, the winner of the reveal night basic grey giveaway is :

132.  Leanne Allinson Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 10:51 pm   edit
What an amazing & totally cool looking kit! Thanks for the chance to win!

email us your mailing address leanne and we’ll get your kit out to you asap.
info [at!] kenner road [dot!] com

happy thursday!
xo

Enter to win this new Basic Grey Eerie scrap kit by commenting here before 8pm pacific on Tuesday, September 15th.

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow night for our reveal night chat, it’s our FIRST birthday and we have some fun prizes in store, including some new release products and more.

happy sunday
xoxo

i love paper & how versatile it is.

you can fold it, tear it, scrunch it, mold it, cut it into shapes; the possibilities are endless!

today i’m going to show you just a few fun, easy techniques:

we’re going to make some cute “scrunchy” flowers, and i’ll also show you some examples of bows, a mini bunting banner, and a “spinner”.

let’s start with the flowers:

all you need is a piece of paper cut or torn into about a 1 1/2 strip.

length depends on how big you want your finished flower.

(my longest strip is about 12 in. long)

now, here’s the trick:

take your strip of paper & quickly run it through some water. you want it thoroughly soaked, but not falling apart.

next, scrunch it into a sort of “snake shape” & start spiraling it until it forms a circle.

as you scrunch it together, kind of flatten & shape until it looks the way you want.

the wetness of the paper will make it kind of stick to eachother.

your blob of paper will be somewhat fragile so you can leave it where it is & let it dry naturally,

or you can be impatient like me & use your blow dryer to speed things up. i think holding it in your hand while it dries helps it to stick together:

after it dried, i used watered down glue to coat the top & then sprinkled glitter on top:

after it dried, i added a cute center ;)

voila!

i loved the “water scrunching” technique so much that i made a cute little bow.

i cut a small, rectangular piece of paper with scallop-edged scissors.

(this piece is about 2×3 in. long)

just moisten your piece of paper, lay down flat on your work surface, & cinch in the middle.

tie with a piece of string to secure.

when the paper is moistened, it makes it so much easier to mold it into the shape you want.

how cute would a page be with cute little tiny bows allover?

here are a few more (dry…lol) shapes & ideas for you to try…

a tiny pendant banner strung onto ric-rac:

and a game piece style”spinner”:

this one is about 3 in. in diameter, but you can make them as tiny as your fingers & scissors allow!

for the center, i used one of the tiny jenni bowlin bingo cards that came in a past months embellishment kit.

the “month circles” are rub-ons from last month’s kit ;)

all held together by a simple brad.

i can’t wait to see the creative ideas you all come up with

don’t forget to show us & upload all your inspiring pics into our flickr photo pool.

have a wonderfully weekend & be sure to tune into our gallery reveal on mon, sept 14th!

favoriteworkofart : you’re a girl!

we had the kenner road creative team go through the flickr gallery and choose layouts that inspired them and hands down this sweet layout won the most votes. from the beautiful layered lollipop flowers to the journaling lines and frames, we adored it!

helen, email me info [at!] kenner road [dot!] com and we can chat about how you can get your free september add-on.

but…. there’s more. :)

we were so impressed and happy to see everyone loading their projects & layouts into the gallery so we pulled one name from everyone else who uploaded over the last month to win a kenner road vintage trim kit… it is our first birthday afterall!

so… laura achilles congratulations !!

email us your shipping addy at the email address listed above and we’ll get your vintage kit out to you too!

happy wednesday!
xo

celeste just sent over her kr gallery for september and i couldn’t wait to show you all her sneak peeks. so wonderful and perfect. we’ve also got the gallery challenge winner picked for tomorrow, so make sure you check back to see if it’s you!

happy tuesday!
xo